#99: Taxon Names and Identifiers
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Reporter: lowry | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Comment (by martin.juckes):
Dear Jonathan,
I don't want to hold up the discussion on this point, but I still believe
that an explicit link between `taxon_identifier` and `taxon_name` would be
an improvement on the implicit link which the current proposal provides.
The CF convention states that a "coordinate may be represented as a scalar
variable (i.e. a data variable which has no netCDF dimensions)", which
implies that a data variable may be a coordinate variable -- I could not
find anything in the convention text relating to the assertion that a
coordinate variable cannot be a data variable, but this may be due to the
fact that I have not looked in the right place. Is there anything in the
text of the convention to say that a coordinate variable is not a data
variable?
Cheers,
Martin
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